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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I would say RIP Barney Frank, but it's common sense that Democrats will lose if we focus on such unpopular issues as Mr Frank's death. So instead I would recommend incremental grieving in this case.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags

Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

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cass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath

This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You all may be having a fancy time over at AWP or CCCCs this week, but back here at home I just got selected as one of 7 Finalists for a Foreword INDIES Award, in the category of Women's Studies no less! Fingers crossed that the book could win! I'm so thrilled about this wonderful turn of events.

Screenshot of Foreword INDIE Award website listing Finalists, that features the cover of the book The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep by Trace Pererson

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/02/2026

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Friends in Western Mass: I'm reading at Amherst Books this Weds 2/11 at 7 PM with the excellent poets Ted Pearson and Martha McCollough!

Poster for a reading with Trace Peterson, Martha MCollough, and Ted Pearson at Amherst Books in Amherst, MA. Showing book covers for each poet.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Thrilled and honored that my book The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep has been reviewed by master of the genre Rob McLennan. This is the first review anyone has written of the book so far, and hopefully it portends good luck!

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

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Saturnalia Books @saturnaliabooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's our annual poetry reading and fundraiser! tinyurl.com/SBFR2025 This Thursday, December 4 @ 8pm EST/5pm PST Via Zoom www.eventbrite.com/e/saturnalia...

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One funny thing happening every time I do a poetry reading from this new book is the next day on social media I get bombarded with a barrage of Jamie Lee Curtis content. I guess that's happening because Jamie Lee Curtis' name appears in several poems in my new book, & the apps are hearing me say it.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Friends in Providence, RI (and nearby)! Kristin Prevallet and I will be reading tomorrow at Riffraff Bookstore! Local celebrity Darcie Denngian will be introducing us. Come out and join us for this TRANS/TRANCE new book extravanganza!

A reading and book launch, featuring Trace Peterson, Kristin Prevallet, and Darcie Dennigan

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AK @theprankquean.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Good mail day yesterday feat. @tracepeterson.bsky.social , Mark Francis Johnson, and Emily Martin.

Arrival of "The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep" by Trace Peterson, "51 Fauns" by Mark Francis Johnson, and "Dependence, the Joistrix / How You Are Made" by Emily Martin.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It's Trans Awareness Week, so drink lots of coffee

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Now up at Boundary 2: I reviewed Charles Bernstein's new book of criticism (link in comments)

Boundary 2: Trace Peterson - Why Bad Poetry Happens to Good People

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It's Trans Awareness Week, so drink lots of coffee

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Very psyched that I submitted an article to Boundary 2 and it was accepted.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/11/2025

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Donald Trump, because I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn The Volume Up." That is how you do it.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Rot In Place to our 43rd President Dick Cheney, torturer & hunting companion extraordinaire

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Had a dream last night where I submitted my academic CV and job search materials to a faculty member at a major university for constructive feedback and criticism. After two days, the faculty member responded by writing back just one sentence: "It's important to be a millionaire."

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Looking forward to reading with Darcie Dennigan and Stine An at P&T Knitwear in NYC this Tuesday! We all have new books out and we're all excited to share them with you. Unfortunately there is a $5 cover charge, but I assure you that we are worth it!

Poster for a reading with Darcie Dennigan, Trace Pererson, and Stine An

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Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

From finding out about this new book by the terrific poet @tracepeterson.bsky.social and having it my hands: less than five days. Can’t wait to read it!

A lavender glossy book cover with a sweeping black font. The title is THE VALLEYS ARE SO LUSH AND STEEP and the writer is Trace Peterson. The book is the winner of the Saturnalia Books 2025 Alma Book Award. Pictured next to some matching purple windfall mums.

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Happy Birthday to my new book The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep, out today from @saturnaliabooks.bsky.social ! (link to order in the comments)

cover image of my newly published book, The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/10/2025

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

In a court filing, the White House says it may fire more than 4,000 federal employees amid the government shutdown. That’s thousands of Americans on the unemployment line, just because.

Court filing that states how many people will be fired from which agency

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2025

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April)

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/10/2025

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Have been trying to come up with a good joke about the "Riyadh Poetry Festival" but things seem so genuinely bleak that I just wasn't able to get it done.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations, according to a new KFF analysis. This puts the U.S. far ahead of peer nations in child and teen firearm deaths.

Data show that U.S. firearm deaths for children and teens again surpassed motor vehicle deaths – the second leading cause of death – and that the increase has been primarily driven by gun assault deaths.

On a per capita basis, the firearm mortality rate among children and teens in the U.S. is over 9.5 times the rate of Canada, the country with the second-highest child and teen firearm death rate. If firearm deaths in the U.S. had mirrored Canada’s rates between 2010 and 2021, approximately 30,000 U.S. children and teenagers would still be alive.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2025

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

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Emmy-Award Winning Journalist at Risk of Deportation Over ICE Coverage

“This is one of the most dangerous periods for free speech in American history,” a Georgia lawmaker said.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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